thanks for that photo Ged I lived in 3 houses in that Street
I first lived at no. 3 with my dad, then no. 2 my first flat until I had a serious fire & had to be rescued by neighbours & firemen(I still have the news paper cutting), after the fire I moved into no.9 until 2002 just before they were demolished
Mandy

That's great that Mike, I'LL deffo get along to that exhibition. I've just posted a film screening and model exhibition at Lee Jones on the Festival and Events thread this thursday if you want to go along. Myrtle Gardens gets a good slot during it, great model that. Those with the orange arrow are the balconies aren't they and yes, that's the central stairway with your green arrow.

he was a real gent,emailed him a few times, he was following my progress and sent me a copy of his pic, i was hoping he would have been able to come to the exhibiton, but sadly not,

i just wish id have known about this excellent forum aswel,

i didnt realise you wrote the in a city living books, my dads just got the first one, and my mate whos helping me build the layout has got all 3, and are really interested in all this history, my dads got loads of liverpool history books

i love it, love the cars, trains, street scenes from the 50s 60s, never got to see all this history, am 23 so thought id do a model of it

Mike, it seems to be the in thing at the moment these models. I see the Liverpool model in the library has been extended then there's the model of what the metopolitan cathedral was going to look like in the Walker and my friend Mike Murphy who supplied many of the photos on my site made one years ago of Tate and Lyles which he still has, now yours too.

The Lee Jones screening is based at their headquarters in Limekiln Lane, just off Silvester Street which in turn is just off Scotland Road, near to St. Anthony's church. It starts at 2pm - it's free but you need to book the tickets by ringing Lesley or Joan on 207 1984.

The film lasts one and a half hours, there's usually people there who bring their own pics to show around and Lee Jones will have their own on show. Ron Fromby of the Scottie press www.scottiepress.org will be present (they're based around the corner and set this up really) and there's always a lively debate at the Q&A session afterwards.

Not to worry Mike, it'll be on again somewhere throughout the year, definitely featuring at the St. George's Hall big history festival in September - see my events page on the website. Why don't you contact Marcia Hughes about having your exhibition there too.

yeah ive got a thing for building models, be it cars, buildings, trains

think it started with watching Thunderbirds when i was a kid

reading books like yours and photos that my dad had collected made me want to do it,

i wanted a railway as got an interest in the old steam days (know a few old drivers and firemen who tell great tales )

and wanted a small Liverpool location, and searched all different local locations, and crown street fitted all the requirements especially with myrtle gardens on it, worked out at 20ftx3ft

the same fella whos doing it with me, is helping his mate, do a layout of Lime street!!! as it was in the 40s, its aprox 40ft x 8 ft complete with the hotel on the end and the cutting leading up to it with the tennements above there, its been to our show in part and will be there in the next year or 2

Jona. I see Lancelot Herman Keay has signed that and they look like the other Mason Street tenements that were built in the 1930s - along the same lines of the Bullring nearby. Proposal drawings were made on all of these inter-war tenement developments or it could be proposed revamps that were drawn up in the 1950s including Gerard Gardens but were shelved.